Graeme Snooks

Graeme Donald Snooks (born 1944 in Perth Western Australia) is a historical economist and stratologist who has developed a general dynamic theory to explain complex living systems. His resulting "dynamic-strategy theory" has been employed to analyse the fluctuating fortunes of life over the past 4,000 million years (myrs) and of human society over the past 2 myrs, and to make predictions about the future.

Professor Snooks has published more than 20 books, including: "Depression and Recovery" (1974), "Domesday Economy" (with J. McDonald) (1986), "Economics Without Time" (1993), "Portrait of the Family within the Total Economy" (1994), "Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?", (1994),"The Dynamic Society" (1996), "The Ephemeral Civilization" (1997),"The Laws of History" (1998), "Longrun Dynamics" (1998), "Global Transition" (1999), "The Global Crisis Makers" (2000), "The Collapse of Darwinism" (2003), and "The Selfcreating Mind" (2006). Recent articles on the theory of complex living systems have been published in "Advances in Space Research" (2005) and "Complexity" (the journal of the Santa Fe Institute) (2008).

This body of work challenges the existing paradigms of orthodox (neo-classical) economics, neo-Darwinism, and evolutionary psychology. In 2008, Graeme Snooks completed books on the origin, nature, and role of religion, and on the complex interaction between societal dynamics and climate change. Since 1989 he has been the Coghlan Professor of Economics and, more recently, Director of the Global Dynamic Systems Centre in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was educated at Mount Lawley Senior High School (1957 - 1961), the University of Western Australia (BEc,1966; MEc, 1968), and the Australian National University (PhD, 1972). Professor Snooks is a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Humanities.

References

1. For further details see: [http://caligula.anu.edu.au/~snooksweb/] , together with "Who's Who in Australia", and "Marquis Who's Who in the World".

2. Gary B. Magee, "As big as it gets: 'Big Theory' and "The Collapse of Darwinism", in "Social Evolution & History", vol. 5, no. 1, March 2006, pp.164 - 174.

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